Materials World Network: U.S./ Australia Cooperation in Organic Semiconductors

康奈尔大学的材料世界网络奖旨在研究使用超临界二氧化碳（scCO2）合成和新型沉积有机电子材料，并评估这些新材料和工艺在光电子器件中的应用，如发光器件，场效应晶体管和光伏器件。该奖项由材料研究部电子材料项目共同资助和管理，将支持康奈尔大学科学家和墨尔本澳大利亚团队之间的合作研究。 拟议研究的意义在于，如果成功，开发的科学将是一种环境友好的方式，有机半导体器件的性能和功能，目前无法通过使用正常有机溶剂处理这些材料。计划中的研究受益于这个国际团队的互补技能，其中墨尔本小组将带来他们卓越的合成能力，以提供适合scCO2加工的材料，而康奈尔大学的这些小组将提供材料性能评估方面的专业知识以及他们在使用scCO2制造设备方面的独特经验。 这项合作努力结合了墨尔本大学的安德鲁·霍姆斯教授和康奈尔大学的乔治·马利亚拉斯教授和克里斯托弗·奥伯教授的互补技能。 Holmes小组在有机电子学的成功实现中发挥了重要作用。该计划设想每年交换康奈尔和墨尔本的PI，并交换更长时间的同事。 各小组之间的联系将通过人员交流和定期安排的视频会议进行。由此产生的可转移技能将在个别同事的互访期间与每个机构分享。该计划将为材料化学，材料科学和应用物理领域的本科生，研究生和博士后学生提供高度跨学科的教育，预计将引起工业界的浓厚兴趣。

This Materials World Network award to Cornell University is to study the synthesis and novel deposition of organic electronic materials using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) and to evaluate these new materials and processes in optoelectronic devices such as light emitting devices, field effect transistors and photovoltaic devices. The award co-funded and managed by the Electronic Materials program in the Division of Materials Research will support the collaborative research between scientists at Cornell University and the Australian team at Melbourne. The significance of the proposed research is that if successful, the science developed would be an environmentally friendly way, organic semiconductor device properties and features that are presently inaccessible by the processing of these materials using normal organic solvents. The planned research benefits from the complementary skills of this international team in which the Melbourne group will bring to the collaboration their exceptional synthetic capabilities to provide materials suited for processing with scCO2 while those groups at Cornell will provide expertise in the evaluation of materials properties and their unique experience in the use of scCO2 to fabricate devices. This collaborative effort combines the complementary skills of Professor Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne and Professors George Malliaras and Christopher Ober of Cornell University. The Holmes group has played an important role in the successful realization of organic electronics. The program envisages exchanges of the Cornell and Melbourne PIs annually and a longer exchange of co-workers. Connections between the groups will take place through exchange of personnel and regularly scheduled videoconferences. The resulting transferable skills will be shared with each institution during the exchange visits of individual co-workers. The program will provide a highly interdisciplinary education to undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students in the fields of materials chemistry, materials science and applied physics and is expected to generate strong interest from industry.